Moodle is a course management system (CMS) that is a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. LAUSD has adopted Moodle as the CMS to deliver curriculum for secondary students and online professional development.
Moodle can also be called a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Platform. It provides a range of functionality covering content creation and delivery, communication and collaboration and management, including reporting and assessment tools. You are currently viewing this course on Moodle.
Here are some of the key functions of Moodle:
Assignments - for managing homework including the ability for pupils to download/upload homework and for teachers to mark it online
Resource links - to webpages and files to help teachers build topics or courses or units of work
Forums for asynchronous discussion of ideas and concepts
Content - commercial content can be uploaded (SCORM packages)
Calendars
Comprehensive monitoring of all activity
Teachers Using Moodle
Moodle offers a range of functionality designed around a core structure of a customizable homepage with learning activities organized into “topics”. After relevant professional development, a teacher may request for a "course" shell to populate. The course can be designed to include resources and activities. Typical activities include: assignment, quizzes, forum, journal and book. Typical resources include: files, links or html pages.
A classroom teacher may populate the course shell with an entire year's curriculum including assignments and assessments or prefer to use the shell for supplemental materials, resources and activities. Teachers can mark and review assignments, view and download answers and results, control timing of events, block and monitor access. Some teachers have used their course shell simply as a communications tool beyond the school day to share class activities and events with parents, hold evening tutorials with students, and collaborate on lessons with other teachers.
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What is Moodle?
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) that is a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. LAUSD has adopted Moodle as the CMS to deliver curriculum for secondary students and online professional development.Moodle can also be called a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Platform. It provides a range of functionality covering content creation and delivery, communication and collaboration and management, including reporting and assessment tools. You are currently viewing this course on Moodle.
Here are some of the key functions of Moodle:
Teachers Using Moodle
Moodle offers a range of functionality designed around a core structure of a customizable homepage with learning activities organized into “topics”. After relevant professional development, a teacher may request for a "course" shell to populate. The course can be designed to include resources and activities. Typical activities include: assignment, quizzes, forum, journal and book. Typical resources include: files, links or html pages.A classroom teacher may populate the course shell with an entire year's curriculum including assignments and assessments or prefer to use the shell for supplemental materials, resources and activities. Teachers can mark and review assignments, view and download answers and results, control timing of events, block and monitor access. Some teachers have used their course shell simply as a communications tool beyond the school day to share class activities and events with parents, hold evening tutorials with students, and collaborate on lessons with other teachers.
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Open Source
Tips Forum - Teaching Strategies